yeah, my investment hasn’t been too strong this season either. Some of it has been I’ve been at 'cross races officiating. So the games have either been on during the day, or have been on too late for me to stay up and still do my job well or travel the next morning, then do my job.
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Why did we just stuff the ISU game here?
We are a ski school! 
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1-5 in one score games, with three of those losses coming in the final 90 seconds.
Just kinda sums up the season right there.
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Read this morning that Utah had a 56 point differential in conference play, with a 1-7 record. Almost half of those points came in a single game against CU. I guess it’s a bit of a silver lining knowing that we’re a QB (even a mediocre one) and a few plays away from being right in the mix.
Doesn’t make the season any less frustrating, but I’m hopeful there may be better days on the horizon.
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Random different question.
I hate the Big12 and wasn’t happy when we moved there. But as we didn’t have an invite to the Big10 oh well.
I see a lot of “we should move”. But aside from actual options and money…I’m feeling a big why bother. CFB is imploding and I don’t see chasing success in greener pastures as something that can even be planned for. NIL and transfer portals have professionalized the game and soon we will just have team employees. The conferences are going to blow up and realign more than once before it’s over. And in a few years we may not even have “college” football anymore…at least not in a recognizable way.
So I’m now at my oh well the nukes are already in the air may as well sit on the front lawn and watch it end stage of CFB fandom.
I’ll still tune in on Friday and next year to see it happen but our own teams winning aside…this all feels more like spectating at a train derailment than at a sporting event.
So the question is…why bother even thinking about moving right now?
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Yes indeed. Utah is four possessions away from being 8-3 and five possessions away from having a chance to tie ASU and send the game into overtime. Despite the complete mess at QB, the litany of injuries (again), internal problems, etc., etc., this team has been competitive in five of the seven losses. Actually, in the Arizona game, Utah was down one score late in the game and needed a stop on third down to get the ball back. But we know what happened next.
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I have no idea. Seems a fitting way to encapsulate the season.
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This has been the most snake-bit team I have ever seen. Losing a game happens, but losing games the way this team has is a curse. No team loses 4QB’s to injury in a season.
If one was to believe in the supernatural, they would believe we were hexed. I hope this just ends up being a one season aberration.
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It got accidentally created in the “Football Recruiting” instead of ”football” category yesterday. I don’t think the category can be edited, so LA dropped the couple posts back into here.
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I have been watching college football avidly for 40 years. Even as a grade-school kid, I followed college football religiously (pretty nerdy, I know). I literally have never seen or heard of a team having to go a fifth-string quarterback. And it has happened two years in a row. It’s unthinkable. It has to be a hex, it just has to. Add to that a continually awful streak of bad luck at the WR position with injuries, people quitting, not performing up to expectations, etc., not to mention running backs hobbling off the field every other play or disappearing (Mitchell, Stanley), and I just don’t know what to make of it.
And it’s not like Utah is getting blown off the field. Colorado took it to Utah last week, but other than that game, Utah has had a chance to win every game, in spite of the circus at the QB position and other issues.
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7 in a row! Wait…wrong direction. 
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Anyone know a voodoo or gypsy witch who could unhex our team?
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Maybe if we sacrifice a bucket of KFC to Jobu? 
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A+ reference.
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That begs the question, who drank Jobu’s rum, and said “up your butt Jobu”?
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There was a year under McBride where we had a rash of injuries at CB, they pulled WRs over to try and field a defense. It was freaky. I’m not sure what the deal was in the Rose Bowl vs Ohio State where Bernard played CB. We had 2s on the depth chart all year who were that were at the game. Nonetheless… Micah-freaking-Bernard.
But I’ve never heard of a CFB team getting down to QB5. Most years I’ve been a Ute fan there wasn’t a QB5. It was a luxury to have 4. (What’s the over/under on us wanting to see Charlie Vincent next week if / when the offense stalls in Orlando?)
Regardless, Ferrari Bottari is going to have some tall tales for his kids and grandkids.
“I beat Shadeur Sanders, Deion Sanders and the Buffalos even though I didn’t have a scholarship. I scored the only offensive touchdown in a near win vs Iowa State, in the year BYU got denied being in the conference championship game after having a 60% chance of being in the CFP”.
20 years from now if he’s back in Cali nobody will believe him, they’ll think maybe he’s a pathological liar, a 2044 version of Cliff Claven.
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I remember that season well. It was 1993. Utah had like nine DBs go down, including Sharieff Shah and some all-conference-caliber players. Somehow, Utah went 7-6. But yeah, Mac had to pull backup QB Harold Lusk into the secondary (he ended up being really good) as well as running back Keith Williams (a former 1,000-yard rusher). Record-setting WR Bryan Rowley even got in for some dime packages. It was nuts.
Being down to QB5 is unheard of and hillariously unlucky. It Bottari goes down, I don’t see how Utah would have a chance.
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I don’t think anyone is, are they?
We’re stuck here for the forseeable future. Utah’s job in this conference is to make a case for why we should have a seat at the table when the next big change happens. Seasons like this one ain’t gonna do that, obviously. We have to figure it out.
My dislike of the B12 doesn’t honestly have anything to do with the B12. I simply don’t have any connection to these teams whatsoever, so it’s hard to get particularly excited about most of the games. I would feel exactly the same had Utah gone to the ACC.
It’s not you B12, it’s me. 
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